Over the last several weeks I’ve been receiving many requests to update some broken links on my blog. As you may remember, the EPN Blog morphed from the El Paso News Blog […]
Year-End File Cleanup
It’s the Emails Dummy
During the controversy over the El Paso ballpark there were many rumors about impropriety. Many were true and others were wrong. One of the longest running controversies involved the improper election interference […]
You All Remember Jane Shang?
(CORRECTION: This post was updated on 26, Feb, 2017 at 10:50ET to correct a mistake about the fireman. The commissioner’s son was approved for a SHIP program that has been alleged should […]
Documents Detailing Oscar Leeser and Ann Morgan Lilly Tiff at Thyme Matters
As most of you know, on December 20, 2016, there was an altercation between Oscar Leeser and Ann Morgan Lilly at Thyme Matters. A police report was filed and an investigation ensued. […]
Texas Attorney General Exempts Friends from Freedom of Information
Veronica Escobar argued to the Texas Attorney General that her years-long friendship with Susie Byrd is reason sufficient to exclude her from the Texas Public Information Act – and the Texas AG […]
A Call for Crowd Sourcing Open Records Documents
Recently, Thomas Dorman embarked on gathering as many open records documents as possible in regards to the recent pay raises for the county commissioners. Dorman has so far gathered almost 200 files […]
A Public Documents Archive
Some of you may have noticed that the SocialUnwind.com site, where I was storing open records documents, is no longer working. Unfortunately, I was in a rush a few days ago and […]
What Will Veronica Escobar Do?
Friday, by the end of the day you and I, will find out what Veronica Escobar intends to do with the public documents about Greg Allen that she has refused to release […]
Attorney General of Texas Orders County Attorney to Release Records
Yesterday I received a response to the complaint I filed with the Texas Attorney General’s office where I complained that Veronica Escobar unilaterally decided that she could decide what documents were public […]
Jim Tolbert and the Art of Hypocrisy About Transparency
During city council’s discussion (item 33.1) last week about Cortney Niland asking that the city rescind its prohibition of electronic devices at the city dais during city council meetings, there was another […]
Cortney Niland Tells Voters She Will Not Follow Rules
Last Tuesday, at the city council meeting, Cortney Niland told voters that she will not follow the rules set for city council meetings. Her outburst came during the discussion for agenda item […]
Peter Svarzbein Misusing City Resources for Personal Gain
There was a recent controversy on an El Paso historical Facebook page and an El Paso website over the misappropriation of a picture of Chicos Tacos. The picture, apparently taken from the […]
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